Jack Evoniuk > Jack's Quotes

“I’ve gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I’ve had enough for the present.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“At least say it indirectly, that’s what you have style for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
― Donald Knuth

“I can’t listen to music because it makes me want to say sweet, silly things, and pat people on the head… but you have to beat people’s heads, beat them mercilessly! … What a devilishly difficult job I have.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Merlyn was a staunch conservative, which was rather progressive of him, when you reflect that he was living backwards.”
― T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

“Man seldom looks above his own height after adolescence.”
― T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn

“If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there”
― T.H. White

“Nearly all the ways of giving justice are unfair.”
― T.H. White, CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King

“In China, music’s an affair of state. And that’s how it ought to be. Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“But really, this is no great sorrow, particularly, you’ll agree, when wine’s imported duty-free.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.”
― Euripides

“Had I succeeded, I’d be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.”
― Euripides, Hippolytus

“Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.”
― IEEE Computer Society

“The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.”
― Bjarne Stroustrup

“What heart, what soul, what bollocks could long endure this plight, having no one to shag in the middle of the night?”
― Aristophanes, Lysistrata

“It is simpler to redefine the meaning of “equal.”
― Hans Schneider, Matrices and Linear Algebra

“In Georgia to suspect was to believe, and the only hand you could really trust was that of your enemy because you knew it held a dagger.”
― Harrison E. Salisbury

“Are we to hold that different rules obtain for books on the one hand and painting, sculpture, and music on the other? We do not confine people to looking at poor pictures and listening to poor music on the grounds that they cannot understand good pictures and good music.”
― Robert Maynard Hutchins